Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.